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Kent Sharkey wrote: Now, it could be that it's in the queue for next Tuesday, but the reporters could have found that out.
Does MS comment on these sorts of things? I didn't think they normally did.
And as for waiting until Tuesday, MS has honestly shot themselves in the foot on that front by pushing W10 fixes outside of that cycle on a semi-regular basis.
Kent Sharkey wrote: Adobe received a warning from Google the same day, and got a fix out. Although they do need to be pushing fixes out hourly, so I'm sure their fix team is pretty peppy.
Of course since their updater only looks for a new version at boot time, for 99% of users it'll actually come out with the next OS patch. Adobe really needs to update their updater to do daily checks and start pushing them in users faces despite the hassle of browser restarts. (Well that or Flash just needs to die. One or the other.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The Corrode project automatically ports C codebases to Rust as a way to give older C projects like CVS a new lease on life I'm not sure "Corrode" gives the right impression for your project fellows.
Then again, maybe they're right?
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Quote: Sharp's quest for such projects led him to CVS, the version control system that was last updated in 2008 and has a code base of 50,000 lines of C. Most projects use one of CVS's replacements, such as Subversion or Git, but Sharp pointed out that "there are still tons of open source projects where their history is only available via CVS." Bringing CVS up to date would allow the histories of those projects to be more readily preserved.
If it wasn't for a handful of major projects like at least one of the BSDs still using CVS as their primary source control, I'd suggest building tools to automate finding and importing legacy CVS repos into a more modern SCC would be a much better investment of time and money.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Matt Mullenweg, the founder of Automattic, downloaded his competitor Wix’s iOS app. It looked eerily familiar, and he confirmed it contains source code stolen from WordPress. There is no free beer?
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Pretty straightforward.
Kent Sharkey wrote: no free beer Yes, that which you make for yourself.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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That's not free either. That is, unless you grow the grains and yeast yourself.
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True, nothing in life is truly "free"
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Kent Sharkey wrote: contains source code stolen from WordPress.
Wix prefers you use the phrase "borrowed silently" when referring to their code.
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Welcome to the future: Vision APIs, Bots, Hololens, reading brain waves, and so much more. Welcome to the future: reading articles before they're on paper!
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Shut it down, NASA wins. They made your pumpkin carving game look like child’s play. Who knew Jack O'Lanterns really were rocket science?
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A revolutionary and emerging class of energy-harvesting computer systems require neither a battery nor a power outlet to operate, instead operating by harvesting energy from their environment. I'm guessing you can't play Battlefront on them?
Or whatever game the cool kids are playing these days.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: ...harvesting energy from their environment
Erm....Wait a sec...Are these things running on...
Methane!!
modified 31-Oct-16 16:38pm.
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Article? I just read the headline / summary.
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We built a fake web toaster, and it was compromised in an hour. I don't know if I want to live in a world where we can't even trust our Web-connected toasters
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Interesting idea and article. Amazing that they found it in an hour.
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So they've basically replicated security research from 20 years ago, wrapped it in OMGWTFLOLBBQ and called it journalism.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I'm actually surprised it took that long. I remember setting up my very first Win 2K server exposed to the internet some 15 years ago, and it was under attack within 10 minutes. I hadn't even finished downloading all the updates. If I hadn't turned off IIS, it would have been taken over before the 30 minute mark is my guess.
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"Renting a small server from Amazon..."
Questionable test since that range of IPs are likely being constantly monitored (to be fair, the author deconstructs his own "test" with the same point.) Moreover, a web-connected toaster deserves to be hacked.
modified 31-Oct-16 12:13pm.
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Joe Woodbury wrote: Questionable test since that range of IPs are likely being constantly monitored
Its IPv4, the range of addresses being constantly monitored by script kiddies is running fire and forget attack scripts is: [0-255].[0-255].[0-255].[0-255] . The m04r l33t h4x0rz will filter that to remove non-routable addresses from the total theoretical range.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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It is not "inevitable" if you take security a little bit serious.
Problem is that companies (e.g., a Dutch hospital) is not responsible for their lack of security and/or any costs that this may create for you as a client. No entrepeneur will spend money on something that won't cost him if anything goes wrong. As soon as they become responsible for the data they keep, things change.
It is also the only industry where you hold something from the client without any liability.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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New training technique would reveal the basis for machine-learning systems’ decisions. "Then a miracle happens..."
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Mozilla is overhauling its Gecko-based web engine so that it's better at handling the dynamic features of modern websites. When in doubt, rewrite?
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Interesting that they seem to be doing this in Rust. Nice to see a safe-by-default (native) language beginning to hit mainstream.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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